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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 1, Fable 12</span><span class="fp-text">LE CERF ET LA FONTAINE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber I, Fabula XII</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">CERVUS AD FONTEM</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ce qu'on méprise est souvent plus utile</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que ce que l'on vante ; cette fable le fait voir.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Laudatis utiliora quae contemseris</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="sepe  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">saepe</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="saepe  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">sepe</span></span> inveniri haec <span class="fp-correction" title="erit  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">exerit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="exerit  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">erit</span></span> narratio.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un cerf buvait à une fontaine&nbsp;: il s'arrête,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et voit son image dans le miroir des eaux.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Là, tandis qu'il admire la beauté de sa haute ramure,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et déplore l'exiguïté de ses jambes,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">épouvanté tout à coup par les cris des chasseurs,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il fuit à travers les champs, et par sa course rapide</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">met les chiens en défaut. Alors il se jette à travers la forêt ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais, arrêté par ses cornes qui s'embarrassent dans le taillis,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il est déchiré par la dent cruelle des chiens.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">On dit qu'en expirant il prononça ces mots&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Malheureux que je suis&nbsp;! je comprends maintenant</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">l'utilité de ce que je méprisais,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et combien ce que j'admirais m'a été funeste.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ad fontem cervus cum bibisset restitit</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et in liquore vidit effigiem suam.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ibi dum ramosa mirans laudat cornua</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">crurumque nimiam tenuitatem vituperat,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">venantum subito vocibus conterritus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">per campum fugere coepit et cursu levi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">canes elusit. Silva tum excepit ferum,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">in qua <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n72/mode/1up">p.9</a>]</span> retentis impeditus cornibus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">lacerari coepit morsibus <span class="fp-correction" title="sevis  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">saevis</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="saevis  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">sevis</span></span> canum.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Tunc moriens vocem hanc edidisse dicitur&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;O me infelicem&nbsp;! qui nunc demum intellego</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ut illa mihi <span class="fp-correction" title="quatum  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quantum</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quantum  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">quatum</span></span> profuerint quae despexeram,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et <span class="fp-correction" title="que  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">que</span></span> laudaram quantum luctus habuerint.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>
<div class="fp-la-fontaine">Lire la fable de La Fontaine&nbsp;: <a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Cerf_se_voyant_dans_l%E2%80%99eau">Le Cerf se voyant dans l’eau</a></div>
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